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Windows 11 still ships EmulateHeap, a compatibility shim containing recompiled Windows 95 heap manager code, originally added to work around a use-after-free bug in SimCity that Microsoft patched the OS for rather than fixing the game.
The article discusses the historical use of winstart.bat in Windows 95 for loading TIGA graphics drivers, referencing earlier documentation from Windows 3.1 and a Siemens recommendation for Windows 95.
The author built 56k.rip to experiment with using ChatGPT for simulating 1996 dial-up speeds and Windows 95 UI, discussing successes in JS throttling and retro layouts, and failures in CSS isolation.
Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995, as a highly anticipated operating system that introduced modern pre-emptive multitasking and improved scalability over previous versions.
A tweet commemorating the 31st anniversary of the launch of Windows 95.
The article from The Old New Thing blog describes how the hologram on the Windows 95 box was altered from a naked baby to a clothed one due to a government complaint, and includes a link to the original animation.
Raymond Chen explains how Windows 95 guessed whether a program was a setup program by checking the executable name for magic words like 'setup' or 'install'.
A detailed technical analysis of Quake performance on various 1990s CPUs and configurations, comparing Intel, Cyrix, AMD chips, and memory types under DOS and Windows 95.
A technical deep-dive into the historical reasons for creating WinQuake, a Windows-native version of Quake, and how it achieved performance close to the DOS version on Windows 95 and NT.
This article details how id Software engineered Quake's executable to run on both DOS and Windows 95 by utilizing the Windows 95 DPMI server and TCP/IP stack, enabling better multiplayer networking.